Maternity Pictures

Warning: Contains pictures of a bare belly!

Nursery!

This nursery has been in the works for many moons and we are still finishing up a few little projects but I wanted to share some pictures now that it looks pretty put together! Funny fact: when we hadn't found out what we were having I was trying to think of what colors I wanted the nursery to be, I thought of grey and yellow immediately for a boy and could never decide colors for a girl. I guess I already knew we were having a boy!

Most of this room is made up of projects I made myself (as if you can't tell) and most of them turned out great! I wanted to make a lantern cluster instead of a mobile but it proved pretty hard to hang them close together on the ceiling. It didn't turn out quite like I envisioned but oh well. 

So I made the art above the crib myself using the same elephant fabric I used on the rocking chair. AND... sewed my own dust ruffle! It is officially my sewing debut (and truth be told my mom did most of the work) but I did learn how to sew straight lines. Maybe one year my child will want to be a box for halloween and I'll make his costume. 

We got this old rocking chair on KSL for 15 bucks, I am terrible at taking before pictures, but basically it was like a dark wood with forest green cushions. Not pretty. So we painted it white and Mr. Beach sewed this new cushion cover for it! He is a man of many talents!

Some more artwork I made and the changing table we painted yellow (it used to be a light wood color.) 

Basically everything baby is SUPER expensive! Bedding, furniture.... and it's all for someone who isn't little for very long! The only piece of furniture that we bought new was the crib and the rest of the stuff we made or fixed up ourselves. It worked out well for us!

Pregnancy Updates:

So I am now 34 weeks along.. We're getting maternity pictures taken this week which is good because I never take cute pictures, I just take these...

I took this one because I was trying to show Josh that the baby had dropped. I am much more comfortable now! After having baby feet in my ribs for 3 months, it is a strange feeling to have my ribs to myself. Even though I'm pretty sure my little man bruised a few of my ribs, I miss his crazy little tootsies up there. As I'm nearing the end of things, I've been thinking about the things I will miss and the things I won't and really the only thing that has been awful that I won't miss has been my swollen feet. I don't know if any picture could do them justice.

Ah I just want to cry even looking at this. Stupid feet. Josh has had to grocery shopping by himself for the last 3 months because I can't hobble through the store.

Funny story: Josh and I went to birthing class this weekend and they had all the men take turns trying on the pregnancy belly while the rest of us were listening to the teacher. We were sitting in the back of the class and when Josh had the belly on, I whispered to him to try and sit on the floor and then get up off the floor by himself. Josh was quite confident he could do it. So he got on the ground and then after a few failed attempts, jumped up from the floor, fell over, and knocked over a stack of chairs. Everyone in the class was staring at us and I was laughing too hard to explain what had happened. It was pretty great. 

Pregnant Josh. Not very coordinated. 

He supremely hates attention like this but I could not have gone through any of this without him, he has waited on me hand and foot for 9 months now. Has made me breakfast, lunch, and most of my dinners, has done the housework, has rubbed my fat feet (which he lovingly refers to as seal pups) and has been very patient with his hormonal, emotional wife! The other night I asked him as we were going to bed "aren't you so glad this is almost over?" and he said surprised me greatly and said "no." What a loving guy!